Blood and mucus eggs.

[LauraAndrews]

Hi everyone!

I've 3 lovely chickens they're about a year old who lay me wonderful blue eegs almost every single day.
Today I let the dogs into the garden (fenced off section from the chickens) an they start barking, so I stick my head out to see whats up an there is my chicken, squatting in the middle of the lawn. I thought she was just having a large poop but apparently not. As soon as I realized what was happening I ran upstairs to grab my phone because I wanted to film it, I've had chickens for several years and never once have I seen one lay an egg, let alone outside of her boxes in broad daylight so I was very excited. Came back down an I missed the magic moment sadly, went to grab the egg anyway an that's when I realized it was covered with blood and mucus which has never happened before. It's also oddly shaped and appears to have a strange discolored crack on it also. I've attached some pictures, any thoughts?







As you can see it's not a small egg, so maybe she had trouble passing it? I just don't want her to be ill. They're not cuddly chickens by any means but I'm still attached to them an would be very upset if she was sick.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

It does look like it was a doozy to lay. The blood is from the cloaca stretching, the crack could be from her pausing, and sometimes they are formed with a weak middle. The mucous looks like possibly poop to me. My turkeys often just drop eggs especially if they can't get to where they want to lay. It was probably a fluke egg and I wouldn't necessarily be worried at this point.